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    Mars Pathfinder is an American robotic spacecraft that landed a base station with a roving probe on Mars in 1997. It consisted of a lander, renamed the...
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    on Mars for 92 sols (95 Earth days). It was the first wheeled vehicle to rove on a planet other than Earth and formed part of the Mars Pathfinder mission...
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    other Soviet Mars landing attempts failed. Viking 1 and Viking 2 were first successful NASA landers, launched in 1975. NASA's Mars Pathfinder, launched in...
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    Perseverance remains operational as of March 2024. Sojourner rover, Mars Pathfinder, landed successfully on July 4, 1997. Communications were lost on September...
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  • S2CID 117853853. Nilsen, E. N. (2012). Exploring Mars: an overview Willcockson, William H. (1999). "Mars Pathfinder Heatshield Design and Flight Experience"....
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  • Look up pathfinder in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pathfinder, Path Finder or Pathfinders may refer to: Mars Pathfinder, a NASA Mars Lander NASA Pathfinder...
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    can be used. The Mars time of noon is 12:00 which is in Earth time 12 hours and 20 minutes after midnight. For the Mars Pathfinder, Mars Exploration Rover...
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    rover projects all counted the sol of touchdown as "Sol 0". Mars Pathfinder and the two Mars Exploration Rovers instead defined touchdown as "Sol 1". Generally...
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    Mars Images". NSSDC - Mars 6 "Mars Pathfinder Science Results". NASA. Archived from the original on 2 April 2012. Retrieved 20 September 2015. "Mars Pathfinder...
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    years in space. The NASA Mars Pathfinder, carrying a robotic exploration vehicle Sojourner, landed in the Ares Vallis on Mars in the summer of 1997, returning...
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